"Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection."
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"We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class."
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"The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change."
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"Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward."
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"You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom."
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"It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval."
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"Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was."
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"The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence."
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"In spite of all our speeding it's still the style to be late."
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"People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt."
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"I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power."
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"The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State."
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"Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate."
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"Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions."
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"Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly."
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"We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind."
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"No man can have society upon his own terms."
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"As society advances the standard of poverty rises."
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"Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks."
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"Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do."
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